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I bet it doesn't get Scottish Twitter either. I saw this the other day and thought it was pretty funny: https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkHamiIl/status/7781411295

• vidarh 10y ago
  When I first moved to London, one of my co-worker was a very exuberant young Scottish woman. Her accent was near impossible for me, and she fully realised this, but at one point we came to the mutual understanding that I did in fact pick up most of what she was saying, even though it was only because she talked so much, that she didn't really need to intentionally repeat what she was saying.
• pjc50 10y ago
  Obligatory Burnistoun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU I thought most people would be able to get written Scots dialect, but I did struggle with Walter Scott's Rob Roy where one of the characters speaks it phonetically. There's also a guy doing a newspaper column in Scots in The National, causing quite a bit of controversy. Spoken language is another matter. I've had to interpret between an Ulsterman and an Afrikaaner both of whom were nominally speaking English as a first language.